ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,592, issued on April 7, was assigned to Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for updating cloud platform" was invented by Shi Bai (Beijing), Chen Liu (Beijing), Dayong Wang (Beijing), Zhipeng Han (Beijing) and Zhifan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for updating a cloud platform are provided. The method may include: in response to receiving a cloud platform update request, acquiring to-be-used updating cluster gene information corresponding to the cloud platform update request, wherein the...